My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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